Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

— Craik, Dinah Mulock

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

— Gay, John

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

— Johnson, Samuel

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

— Malkovich, John

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

— Wilde, Oscar

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

— Yezierska, Anzia